Scott Pilgrim Casting

Back on July 2008 on this blog I wrote a review/recommendation for Scott Pilgrim vol.1 - Scott Pilgrim vs the world and to me it is still one of my favorite graphic novel of 2008, if not of all time.

For those who never read or it's been a while since you did, here's a recap -
Scott pilgrim is a 23 yrs old slacker that meets the girl of his dreams (literally) and finds out that in order to date her he has to battle her 7 evil exes.

Now director Edgar wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is bringing this book to a big screen and he is bringing a huge cast of young Hollywood talent.
I'm so excited for the movie that I decided to post the cast listing, just to show what an awesome movie this will be.
The cast is as follows;


Michael Cera - Scott Pilgrim




Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Ramona flowers




Chris Evans - Lucas Lee (Second Evil Ex)




Brandon Routh - Todd Ingram (Third Evil Ex)




Ellen Wong - Knives Chau




Mark Webber - Stephen Stills




Alison Pill - Kim Pine




Anna Kendrick -Stacey Pilgrim



Johnny Simmons - Young Neil




Brie Larson - Envy Adams




Kieran Culkin - Wallace Wells



And Many More. . .

The movie is currently being filmed & doesn't have a release date, we are also awaiting the release of the 6th and final volume of Scott Pilgrim.
I'm so excited for this movie.

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Jeff Smith's Bone Series Review

This review is about a wonderful series that I didn't get to read until recently and I'm glad that I finally did.
I picked up Jeff Smith's Bone in an attempt to further my sister's comic book reading and we ended up loving this series.
The color series just recently came to a conclusion, So I decided to have a review of the whole series now that I've read it all.

Now before going into the review, Let me give you a little background on the creator, Jeff Smith.
Jeff Smith is a cartoonist currently from Columbus, Ohio and has been drawing since he was ten years old, In 1991, he launched his company, Cartoon Books, in order to publish his comic book series Bone which ran for 55 issues from 1991 to 2004.
In 2005 Scholastic started re-releasing Bone into 9 volumes in full color which in January, we saw the release of the last volume, Bone Vol.9 Crown of Horns.

Bone is a fantasy story the revolve around the Bone family, especially the Bone cousins, Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone the goofy bone, Smiley Bone the mischief one and our lead character Fone Bone.

The story starts with the Bone cousins being kicked out of Boneville and having to live out in the desert, after wondering around for a while they stumble upon a
a forest and a girl named Rose ant the story continues from there. I decided to be spoiler free for anyone who want to read the series.
The story continues with kings and princesses, rat creatures, dragons, and many more characters ,the best part of the story for me was the chemistry between Fone bone and Rose.
Jeff Smith takes his time establishing each character early on while still leaving space for surprises.

The books take a more serious and fantasy turn toward the latter book starting around book 5 but once you are there, your so committed to the story that it helps you to push forward.
the story ends with a nice conclusion and closes the series very nicely, I recommend this series to anyone who is a fan of fantasy stories of all ages.

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My Twitter list (or who I follow)

As previously mentioned, In December my brother and I both got Iphones and we love them.
The Iphone has so many great features with one of my favorites all the Applications.

I have so many Apps to play with (enough to make a blog about it), but the one that gets more use is the Twitterific App.
This app lets me follow and post "Tweets" on my phone.

For those who don't know what Twitter is a social networking service that lets its users to send and read other users' updates or "tweets" which can be send by text or going to the website.
You can choose who you can follow and you can approve who follow you, it is a great place to interact with people of common interest, people you admire or anyone you which to know.

Since being on the service, my following list of people has increase dramatically, mainly due to a wonderful list Ifanboy put out on Comic Book People on Twitter, you can check the list yourself here.
I'm so excited about all the people I follow that I decided to blog my list here to show who they are for those who maybe didn't know they had twitter accounts
and to probably get more people to follow them.

My List is as follows;
Ifanboy - A Comics Podcast
Around Comics - A Comics Podcast
Wordballoon A Comics Podcast
Kevin Rose - Host of Diggnation Podcast
Alex Albrecht - Host of Diggnation & Totally Rad Show
Jeff Cannata - Host of Totally Rad Show
Dan Trachtenberg - Host of Totally Rad Show


Marvel Comics - Publisher of Spiderman, Iron Man, X-Men, etc.
DC Comics - Publisher of Superman, Batman , Wonder Woman, etc.
Dark Horse - Publisher of Hellboy, Sin City, etc.
Oni Press - Publisher of Scott Pilgrim, Queen & Country, etc.

Joe Quesada - Editor-in-Chief at Marvel.
Tom Breevoort - Editor at Marvel
C.B.Cebulski - Editor at Marvel
Agent M - Editor at Marvel

Brian Michael Bendis - Writer (Avengers, Powers, Ultimate Spider-man).
Ed Brubaker - Writer (Captain America, Criminal, Incognito).
Matt Fraction - Writer (Uncanny X-men, Casanova, Invisible Iron Man).
Sterling Gates - Writer (Supergirl)
Jason Aaron - Writer (Scapled, Ghost Rider, Wolverine)
Neil Gaiman - Writer (Sandman, Coraline, Stardust)
Jonathan Hickman - Writer (Secret warriors, Fantastic Four, Transhuman)
Brian Reed - Writer (Ms.Marvel, New Avengers: Illuminati, Mercenaries 2 Video game)
Terry Moore - Writer (Echo, Runaways, Strangers in Paradise)
Bryan Lee O'Malley - Writer (Scott Pilgrim)

Skottie Young - Artist (Marvel's Wizard of Oz, New X-men)
Mike Norton - Artist (Trinity, Green Arrow & Black Canary)
Mike Choi – Artist (Uncanny X-men, X-23)
Leinil Yu – Artist (New Avengers, Secret Invasion, Superman: Birthright)
David LaFuente – Artist (Ultimate Spider-man)
Jamie Mckelvie – Artist (Phonogram, Cable)
Christina Strain – Colorist

Mark Hoppus - Blink182 singer/Bass
Travis Barker - Blink182 Drummer
William Beckett jr - The Academy Is... singer
Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance singer
Kevin Pereira - Host of G4's Attack of the Show
Olivia Munn - Host of G4's Attack of the Show
Alison Haislip - Guest Host of G4's Attack of the Show
Elizabeth Banks - Actress
Jimmy Fallon - Actor & host of the Late Night

And many more. . .

You can also follow my Family and Friends
HitnRunTony - My brother he also blogs here.
Greensidekick - My cousin
Hurd0033 - My Roommate
GMack3 - My Cousin

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Project:Bookshelf

For the past couple of months I started to notice that I was running out of space on my current bookshelf what with all the books I either bought or received for Christmas.



You also have to add to my collection my addiction to Marvel's Mighty Muggs, with all this I needed to find a solution to this situation fast.


In my place I have a wall that's between my bedroom and my roommate's bedroom where I once had a small 3-shelf bookshelf,
this is where I decided to start my project.



Now big thanks goes to my brother Tony for helping me come up with the idea and for telling me to built it.
This Is the process I took to built my bookshelf, first I had to come up with the idea, so I drew it up on google's sketchup



and after that, I started my project.











Now that it was built I had to decide on paint, I decided to paint it one color only because I would be a lot of work and I was lazy.







Now this is the completed work with all my collection.





you can see more of the shelf and close-up of my collection on my flickr page.

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Top stories From NY Comic-con (that I'm excited about)

On February 6-8, in New York City, the NY Comic con took place which marked the start to the comic convention season and with each convention there is plenty of news stories coming out and plenty of news to be excited about.
For me these are my favorite news stories (not in any order)

The marvel project by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting exploring the early history of the marvel universe.
Anything done by Brubaker and Epting is sure to be fantastic.

After ultimatum comes Ultimate comics
Ultimate Comics Spider-man by Brian Michael Bendis and David Lafuentes
Ultimate Comics Avengers by Mark Millar and Carlos Pacheco
As Much as I'm disliking Ultimatum, having Bendis and Millar back in the ultimate universe is something i can't wait for.

Amazing Spider-man: The Short Halloween by SNL members Seth Meyer and Bill Hader art by Kevin Maguire
SNL has been really funny this year and i think it's all because of this guys so for them to work on a spider-man comic is really cool.

Creative team after millar & hitch's fantastic four are
Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham
This is more excitement for Eaglesham than Hickman because I'm a huge fan of Eaglesham's JSA run, so I'm really looking forward to this.




Brian Michael Bendis's Powers TV Pilot offered to channel FX
(powers is one of my all-time favorite series and I can't wait to see it on the small screen)

Flash:rebirth #1 out in May by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver
Green Lantern:Rebirth is the comic that not only learn to love Green Lantern but got me into DC Comics again.

Vertigo crime line
smaller than standard comics mostly done in black & white around 200+ pages for about $20
some of the titles are:
Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos
Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell' Edera
Are Ten by Christos Gage and Chris Samnee
I hated that DC Comics' Minx Line didn't survive but I love a lot of vertigo book and a line of crime book sounds too good to be true.

Josh Howard's Dead@17 & Chris Giarrusso's G-man are coming to Image
Happy to see these series going to a good company to get a better exposure.




Dellec a new series from Aspen
(one man will discover that servants of God are creating evil on earth. It's all part of God's plan to the create enough disaster and fear on Earth that people will worship him.)
Co-written by Aspen President Frank Mastromauro and Editor-in-Chief Frank Hernandez with art by Micah Gunnell
Issue #0 in may($1.99), issue #1 in July ($2.59)
Finally a series from Aspen that I'm really excited to read.

Any many more, you can check Newsarama or Comic Book Resources for more info and for more news on NY Comic con.

Filipino comics artists

This topic came about because last summer my girlfriend and I were watching the Olympics, and during the opening ceremony she had mentioned that she thought her country was not being represented in the Olympics.

For those who don't know I'm Mexican and she is Filipino, so after looking online I was able to show her that in fact there were several people representing the Philippines.

Now for fun and educational purpose, I decided to look up Filipino comic artist to show her and I was amazed at who came up on the list.
I was so Amazed that I had to make a blog about it,and here is the list.


Leinil Francis Yu - New Avengers, Secret Invasion, Superman:Birthright.






Philip Tan - Green Lantern, Spawn, New Avengers, Final Crisis:Revelation.






Carlos Pagulatan - planet Hulk, Skaar:Son of Hulk, Agent of Atlas, New Avengers Annual 2.






Whilce Portacio - Spawn, Batman:Confidential.






Francis Manapul - Legion of Superheroes, Witchblade, Iron and the Maiden






Lan Medina - Fables, Punisher:Max






and many more, if you are interested they have a great Wikipedia page about these artist and many artist from different nationalities from Mexico, Spain and many other Countries.